Amani Rakeia
Amani Rakeia makes Living Alone Diaries and writes more matcha, please., sharing life in her twenties through stories about solitude, friendship, beauty and self-care.
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- Work
- Creator, writer and visual storyteller
- Based in
- Denver, with a creative history in New York and Los Angeles
- Known for
- Living Alone Diaries and more matcha, please.
- Before creating full time
- Community and social media work at Rare Beauty and Aritzia
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How it started.
Amani began as a blogger who wanted to speak openly about experiences she rarely saw discussed honestly. In her 2019 Bosswatch interview, she said that encouragement from readers helped her personal writing grow into a brand. She credited thoughtful photography and candid storytelling with helping her Instagram grow.
Writing and community.
She joined Sad Girls Club in March 2018 after approaching founder Elyse Fox at a Yale event and offering to help with its blog. By her 2019 interview, she had redesigned its website, recruited contributing writers and become editor in chief.
Living Alone Diaries.
Her Living Alone Diaries became her signature series, pairing everyday life with honest reflections on solitude, dating and self-care. In a 2023 appearance on The Soft Life with Saddie Baddies, she discussed her path from community and social media roles at Rare Beauty and Aritzia into full-time freelance creation.
More matcha, please.
In 2025, Amani brought her personal storytelling to the newsletter more matcha, please. Her essays follow friendship, rest and building a life that feels right to her. That August, she wrote about visiting Colorado for a Kindle campaign and returning to look for an apartment. By February 2026, she was writing from her Denver apartment.
Creditschronological, newest first
Video
Writing and editorial
- 2025More matcha, please.: My love letter to matchaWriter
- 2019Sad Girls ClubEditor in chief and website designer, as described in her Bosswatch interview
Podcasts
Quotes
It’s when you find your voice that people start to realize why they would like to come to your page.Amani Rakeia, #BOSSWATCH interview, February 12, 2019
Trivia
- Her newsletter’s name comes from her love of matcha, which she traced to discovering Alfred Tea Room in Los Angeles in 2021.
- The drink that started that habit was Matcha in Blue, made with lavender, blue butterfly pea flower, mint and vanilla.
- In her February 2026 essay about friendship and love, she said she was rereading bell hooks’ All About Love.
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